Improvement in uterine supporters



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.-

FRANCES CARTER, OF WASHINGTON, VIRGINIA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4,915, dated January1,1847.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCES CARTER, of Washington, in the county ofRappahannock and State of Virginia, have invented certainy Improvementsin the Apparatus or Truss for the Cure or Relief of Prolapsus Uteri; andI do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full and exact description otthe same, reference being had Ato the accompanying drawing, making apart of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the combiningoftwouterinesupporting-pads with au abdominal and adorsal pad,orwith eitherof them, in such manner that they (the uterine supporting-pads) shallact upon the pelvis on each side of the labia for the purpose of givingequal or better support to the uterus than can be given by the singleperineal pad generally made use of, and of obviating the objectionsthereto,such as inconvenience in the use, injury from moisture, dac.

In the accompanying drawing, A 1s a dorsal pad, and B is an abdominalpad. These are united bythe belt E, and may be constructed in anyWell-known or usual manner. l

F F are shoulder-straps attached to the belt E. 1l is a buckle forsecuring the belt around the body.

C C are the uterine supporting-pads. D D are straps attached to theuterine pads. h h are stay-ears attached tothe lower edge of theabdominal pad, at each end of the n same, to which the uterinesupporting-pads C C are made fast by stay-strings or in any otherconvenient manner.

g g are stay-ears attached to the dorsal pad, to which the straps D Dare secured in any convenient manner.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The making use of two uterine supportingpads C C, arranged in such amanner as to act on the pelvis each side of the 1abia,'and also theircombination with an abdominal and a dorsal pad, or with either of them,substantially as herein set forth.

J oHNy P. I-IooPER, TILMoN PORTER.

